"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him ... It's all just baloney," the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee says.
Allan Smith at NBC News:
Four years since their rough Democratic primary battle, Hillary Clinton has not let up on her criticism of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, says of Sanders in a new documentary that "nobody likes him."
"He was in Congress for years," Clinton says in the soon-to-be-released four-part Hulu documentary "Hillary," The Hollywood Reporter said in a report. "He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."
Asked by The Hollywood Reporter in an interview released on Tuesday if her assessment still stands, Clinton said, "Yes, it does."
Clinton also criticized the "culture" around Sanders, I-Vt., as the 2020 presidential contender has had high-profile disputes with Democratic rivals such as former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in recent weeks.
And Clinton would not commit to endorsing Sanders if he becomes the Democratic nominee.
"I'm not going to go there yet," she said about potentially supporting Sanders. "We're still in a very vigorous primary season."
Sanders endorsed Clinton in 2016 following the primary.
"I will say, however, that it's not only him, it's the culture around him," Clinton added. "It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women."
Clinton said Sanders has "not only permitted" that culture, but is "very much supporting it."
I supported Sanders in 2016, and Hillary is right regarding the toxic culture of the Sanders campaign and its surrogates. She said that she won't commit to backing Sanders if he's the nominee.